Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:50:35 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dd image not working Message-ID: <4ce88806-41f9-4323-b0ef-53d5251a380a@unixarea.de> In-Reply-To: <c43fa169a6204b7e534ce0d86b6a4073.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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El jueves, 20 de abril de 2017 18:01:07 (CEST), James B. Byrne=20 <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> escribi=C3=B3: > I am trying to create a bootable USB image for FreeBSD. The device > name of the USB flash memory appears to me to be /dev/sb1 >=20 > # mount -l > . . . > /dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > /dev/sdb1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=3Dudisks,uid=3D500,gid=3D500,shortname=3Dmixed,dma= sk=3D0077,utf8=3D1,flush) > # >=20 > I dismount that device >=20 > # umount /dev/sdb1 >=20 > and check >=20 > # mount -l > . . . > /dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > [Bluebirds] > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > # >=20 > Now I run dd > # dd > if=3D/var/data/disk_images/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img > of=3D/dev/sbd1 bs=3D512 conv=3Dsync > 1256080+0 records in > 1256080+0 records out > 643112960 bytes (643 MB) copied, 1.92347 s, 334 MB/s > # >=20 >=20 > But the usb key does not appear to have been altered at all. If I > remove it and reinsert then it automounts with the same information as > before: > # mount -l > . . . > /dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > [Bluebirds] > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > /dev/sdb1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=3Dudisks,uid=3D500,gid=3D500,shortname=3Dmixed,dma= sk=3D0077,utf8=3D1,flush) > [KINGSTON] >=20 please show # fdisk /dev/sdb I think you should dd to /dev/sdb and not to sdb1 matthias --=20 Sent from my Ubuntu phone http://www.unixarea.de/
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